Audit Reports

Inpatient and Outpatient Reports

Audit Reports summarize the number of inpatient and outpatient encounters on the SPARCS Master File. Audit Reports are organized by Discharge Year/State Region/Facility Identification Number/Discharge Month and are updated monthly, provided there are sufficient transactions.

• Inpatient Audit
• Outpatient Audit

Emergency Department Reports

The Emergency Department Reports detail the number of records that were submitted on the inpatient and outpatient file for each facility that contained a revenue code with a value defined as emergency (045x). The outpatient file is further divided by the types of data submitted on the file: Ambulatory Surgery and Emergency Department.

• Emergency Department Audit

Outpatient Data Type Reports

Outpatient Data Type Reports divide the accepted outpatient stays into the three data types collected by SPARCS: Ambulatory Surgery (AS), Emergency Department (ED) and Expanded Outpatient Data (OP) based upon the edits required for each data type.

• Outpatient Data Type